I Ben and thanks for sharing this feeling, On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 08:24:16PM -0400, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > > thanks for this pointer. so sad those questions arise in stack* as we have a > > user mailing list. > > I'm sorry to hear you feel that way; the goal of the StackExchange > project was to create a commons of high-quality resources (much like > Wikipedia has).
Wikipedia came out to fill the gap of collaborative places to edit articles. StackExchange just split communities because previous tools (mailing lists, newsgroups, archives and FAQ) were so much more convenient but in the early years of this millenium, lot of people came to internet with no idea of habits and customs of the technical communities. If it was ignorance, that's very sad. If not, I'll be happy to learn abou arguments that was worth splitting communities. > I think the linked examples are good examples of this > (though if you visit the home page you will find more sand than pearls > these days, at the cost of having helped a great number of people). Did you try newsgroups or mail archives? did you enjoy having your own local workflow with mbox mirrors indexed so you can use mutt of maildir-utils to query them, add copies of posts or threads in your notes and things like that? StackExchange will never reach this level of convenience. Not to mention it's so painful to have a decent conversation through html text ereas. especilly for vim or emacs users. I don't know if StackExchange has an API (I'll be happy to learn about it) so I can include it in my workflow but nevertheless: It's extra work for same result :( > Mailing lists are great, and they serve a different purpose for me > (cf. the recent extended discussion which might ultimately be boiled > down to a high-quality Q&A pair if desired). So how do you set the cursor between mailing lists and StackExchange? We all know the story of questions that looks insignifiant at start being the root of a giant threads with very interesting perspectives. Another point against StackExchange: those kind of threads are so painful to follow in a web page. I couldn't imagine that people could be found of StackExchange so I'm really grateful you shared about it. regards. -- Marc Chantreux -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/Z-uyPoeEHOSoy15M%40prometheus.
